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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

My Wonderful Funky Junk Finds

The last couple of weekends have been great for finding mostly junk and some nicer vintage items. All of it I hope to turn in to wonderful treasures of some sort. I don't really think of any of the pieces as junk since I can see so much potential in all...well most of them.

I'll start with my most favorite. I didn't even have to buy it. Some of you may look at it and say "good thing!" My husband found this while walking in the woods up north and brought it back for me:

I absolutely squealed! And then he said "and look honey, it has metal corners and everything". He knows exactly what I like! I just love him. Who needs flowers or candy? Just give me the junk. I have a few ideas formulating for a project for this one so it won't be long before you see a project over at Rustic Crafts.

Then there is this little guy:

It's a vintage net float. I bought just one because I need to fiddle with it a little bit until I come up with a good idea. The manager of the antique store said she would sell me several for a good deal if I wanted more, so we will see.
Another favorite purchase of mine is this great cafe sign:

It was located out in back of one of my favorite antique stores in Newaygo, MI. There wasn't a price on it but that was typical of a lot of the items there and I was prepared to negotiate. However, I was surprised when the owner started to laugh and said that it wasn't for sale because it still got used for a charity event. She was kind of enough to sell it to us though for making a donation to the church.
We bought quite a few things from her that day so she through in these letters for free:

We had found these in the back yard of the store as well and I think she was a little surprised that we had wanted these too, based on her chuckle. However, I love numbers in wall art. Plus, both my husband and I were born in 64 so how cool is that?

I planning on using this old door or shutter probably just for the wood slats:

I have already decorated my office with the other items that I purchased at her store:

I think these were old jail keys. I don't feel like I am in jail when I'm in my office but thought they looked cool hanging in there.

And, the red picket fence was a great find especially since I didn't have to do anything with it. The color already coordinated with my office colors and it was naturally distressed.

My last purchase was this vintage sheet music:

There is so much that I will be able to do with this in various crafts!

Stopping by from the blog hop and was happy to see that I already follow on FB and GFC but I did follow on RSS Reader today. I am gearing up to send out a newsletter letting everyone know when I have a new review and when I get my act together to do contests. I would love a follow on RSS Reader if you don't mind. Thanks so very much and have a wonderful weekend.